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Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

Originally Posted by ADK_Forever

So, let me get this straight. In your world, when someone speaks is some kind of indicator as to when they started any actions? You BP lovers (Vance and rev) only embarrass yourselves when you try to deflect responsibility for this catastrophe from BP to Obama.

Carry on privates.

Heh, I actually am a PFC, so that's not going to offend me

You ended your 4 years in the service in '78, though, which means you hold no rank at all what so ever today. No one will yell "at ease" or "attention" when you enter a room, if they ever did, let alone a thread. Go ahead and tell us to "carry on", we didn't stop for you in the first place

Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

Originally Posted by ADK_Forever

So, let me get this straight. In your world, when someone speaks is some kind of indicator as to when they started any actions? You BP lovers (Vance and rev) only embarrass yourselves when you try to deflect responsibility for this catastrophe from BP to Obama.

Carry on privates.

The blame starts with inspectors and Obama. BP was a big contributor to Obama so he gave them 9 days to fix it.

Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

Who is a BP lover? Hell...son...we are talking about taking ACTION to stop an active oil flow and PREVENT that oil from reaching the shores and gulf stream. A ****ing leader would say stand back...get the hell out of the way...we will STOP the oil flow and clean this **** up...THEN deal with the payment...not sit back for 40 days and whine about who's fault it is.

But no...idiotic ideologues kneel, swallow, and beg for another Obasm...why YES!!!! He has been ALL OVER THIS...why...since DAY ONE...

Dude...oil is still flowing. Crude is all up in the weeds. Aint **** been done.

Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

Originally Posted by Jerry

Heh, I actually am a PFC, so that's not going to offend me

You ended your 4 years in the service in '78, though, which means you hold no rank at all what so ever today. No one will yell "at ease" or "attention" when you enter a room, if they ever did, let alone a thread. Go ahead and tell us to "carry on", we didn't stop for you in the first place

You actually took the time to write that?

Carry on private.

Thank You Barack Obama for Restoring Honor To The Presidency.President Obama will rank as one of our greatest presidents!

Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

Originally Posted by ptif219

President Obama has tried to sugarcoat his administration’s inadequate and tardy response to the worst oil spill in our nation’s history. His claim that the administration has been “all-hands-on-deck ... from day one” is laughable.

I like it that way, personally. When **** goes down the LAST people you want on-scene are politicians, because they're only present to collect vote and poll ratings.

Originally Posted by ptif219

The Deepwater Horizon well exploded on April 20, but the President did not make his first remarks on the incident until nine days later and finally visited the region May 2, 12 days after the massive explosion. In the days after the spill, the administration did not express much concern and the Coast Guard commander for the region said that “we do not see a major spill emanating from this incident.” Instead of sending the “A-team” to the region, the President dispatched a deputy Interior secretary.

Integrity check: Texas is currently experiencing the 3rd worst natural disaster in American history....where's you rage over Obama not attending a photo-op in Texas?

Originally Posted by ptif219

Prior to addressing the Gulf disaster, the President found time to blast Wall Street and the governor of Arizona, advocate Earth Day awareness, meet with the Rev. Billy Graham, pitch racial politics in his weekly radio address, prepare his jokes for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, make a racially divisive video to activate his political coalition for the 2010 election and hold an impromptu news conference on a range of topics. In this news conference, the President discussed everything from the Supreme Court to immigration, but did not mention the disaster in the Gulf.

That's why folks weren't supposed to vote for him. Too late now.

Originally Posted by ptif219

It was not until April 29 that President Obama deemed the massive explosion right off the coast of Louisiana to be worthy of comment. It was at that point that his administration finally realized that they had underestimated the severity of the explosion. Only then did the administration move into a frenzied state of “action” trying to cover-up their initial mistakes, inaction and utter ineptitude.

The last thing we need is government intervention here. BP is handling it. They ****ed up tons of **** and caused the accident, but today they're the best people to head up the recovery.

Originally Posted by ptif219

Commercial fishermen in Louisiana could have been utilized from the early hours of this crisis to deploy boom and protect delicate marshland. Sadly, there was an unacceptable delay and even now, not enough fishermen are being used and many continue to wait for a call to action that has not come. In addition, the controlled burn of the oil was not started until four days after the second leak was discovered.

Everyone who is out of work can file for unemployment, day-labor and work in another field until BP is ready to buy them off. Don't worry about the local folks, they're squared away.

Originally Posted by ptif219

Five years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit, government officials at all levels failed the citizens of the state.

Well, no, but even if that were true the citizens failed themselves by not heading the months long warnings to evacuate.

Originally Posted by ptif219

If a Republican President had neglected such a crisis for so long, there would be a media firestorm.

You got that right. If a Repub were in office...the liberals would have a daily krill death count like they did for Iraq up until a Liberal took office.

Originally Posted by ptif219

During his visit to Gulf, the President once again pinned the blame on British Petroleum (BP), the operator of the well. Yet, this blame game does nothing to help Louisiana deal with another Katrina-like threat. Of course, BP will have to pay for the damages and is ultimately responsible, but when the Gulf Coast is threatened by a massive oil spill, it becomes the responsibility of the President of the United States as well. Our federal government has many more resources than BP and those resources should have been deployed from the first day, not nine days after the explosion

Uh, no, big bro needs to take a back seat and wait to be called upon by the professionals. Politicians and bureaucrats are not who you want to deal with a highly specialized situation like this.

Originally Posted by ptif219

The President’s six-hour visit does not offer much satisfaction to our fishing industry which has been shutdown by this incident. Approximately 30% of the seafood consumed in this nation comes through the wetlands of Louisiana, so this disaster will impact retailers, restaurant owners and consumers throughout the country.

Today, the estimates are that the well is leaking 5,000 barrels per day, but the President’s point person for the disaster Coast Guard Commander Adm. Thad Allen said the leak could increase 2,000% to an unimaginable level of 100,000 barrels per day. The environmental consequences of such a monumental mountain of oil are too scary to contemplate.

Re: Oil Creeps Deeper Into Delicate Marshes

To blame this oil leak on the president is the epitome of stupidity. But, you gents knock yourselves out.

Oh no no no, we're not blaming the accident on Obama, we're blaming the resulting socialization of the oil industry on Obama.

Well ok maybe some folks are blaming the accident on Obama, and truthfully if he's the big dog at the top the buck stops with him regarding lax inspections and unfinished paperwork on previous wells. So, I guess I can kinda sympathize there, but that's not a hill I'm going to die on.